The Columbarium (a building for
urns containing ashes of the deceased). This one was not
originally built for the purpose though, as there is
no crematorium at Brookwood. The London Necropolis Company had not
foreseen the acceptance, however gradual, of cremation. But after the
newly established Woking Crematorium
began to share its railway services from Waterloo, in about 1890 (see
Parsons), the company must have seen that a columbarium could be
useful. The large and particularly splendid mausoleum of 1878,
commissioned by the 5th Earl Cadogan (1840-1915), was sold back to
them in 1910, and converted for this purpose. It is built of Portland
stone on a cruciform plan. The tympanum was inscribed with the name of
its new function. It is a Grade II listed structure. The
listing text
concludes, "This is the largest mausoleum in the cemetery, and is an
elegant classical example of the type with an unusual history."

The Catholic Chapel

The Catholic Chapel, built in 1899 and dedicated to the Holy Souls,
was designed by Cyril B. Tubbs and Arthur Messer, the same architects
who designed the larger Anglican Chapel (since 1982, the St Edward the
Martyr Orthodox Church). It now serves as the inter-denominational
cemetery chapel.

The (former) Dissenters Chapel and the cemetery Hall

Left: The Dissenters'
Chapel, designed by Sydney Smirke in
1854. Only the base of its original tower can be seen now. Right:
The Parsee "sagdi" or chapel. This is in
the Zoroastrian
burial ground at Brookwood. The ground itself was established in 1863,
when the columns were added; but the sagdi was erected later,
in 1901. John Hinnells writes, "This was the first attempt to carve
out a distinctively Zoroastrian space in Britain" (347).